Search Tool: Prehistoric monuments within 2km of SX5699471379

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About the database: In all listings clicking on the photo will open a page for the site with a larger photo. The listings are drawn mainly from scientific journals and will not include the most recently discovered minor sites. There is comprehensive coverage of stone circles, stone rows and menhirs. Listings for cists and cairn circles should cover most of the better known sites. There are only partial entries for round cairns, settlements, pounds and none for reaves. For listings of specific types of monument click on Resources in the menu above. Corrections, or any feedback or suggestions are very welcome, email: info@dartmoorwalks.org.uk.

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Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and CistsOS Map:SX 56988 71381NMR record:SX 57 SE 35HER record:4994Megalithic Portal:1771The Stone Rows of GB:Black Tor StanlakePMD:Black Tor Stanlake Stone RowShortName: SR:StanlakeButler map: 45.14DPD page: 24Notes: "A Bronze Age Stone Row lies just inside, and is partly buried by, a substantial field boundary. The row extends from SX57217155 to SX57007137, some 294m long and includes at least 57 visible stones. Its north-eastern end is denoted by a substantial blocking stone and its lower south-western end by three funerary cairns. The row can be seen as three distinct parts forming the whole. The northern part includes 39 stones, the central group of 8 stones is separated from the northern row by a 66.2m wide gap whilst the southern group is on a slightly different alignment to the others. The row is unusual in that the blocking stone is at the upper end and a cairn lies at the lower end." Lethbridge diagram and photo p.24.Nearby sites:SX56997138Distance: 0.01km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Hart Tor Stone Row & Cairn CircleOS Map:SX 57708 71708NMR record:SX 57 SE 32HER record:4896Megalithic Portal:1973The Stone Rows of GB:Hart Tor NorthPMD:Harter N Stone RowShortName: SR:Hart Tor NButler map: 46.5.1DPD page: 25Notes:Butler Row 1. There are two cairns close by on the lower slopes of Hart Tor. One has an associated single stone row and the other has an associated double stone row - they diverge at an angle of 18 degrees. The double row consists of 93 stones and is much longer, around 122m in length [Gerrard], and extends all the way down to the River Meavy in the valley below. This row is fairly well preserved although it is crossed by a tinners ditch about a third of the way down its length and again by a leat a third of the way from the lower end. The structure was planned by Wilkinson in 1859 who states that the row is "terminated by a large monolith, now fallen, measuring about 25 feet long by 2 feet and 3 inches". Sadly this stone has long since disappeared. The row has pairs of stones which are spaced fairly accurately 1.9m apart along the rows, the rows being at a constant 1.7m separation. The cairn circle is 9.3m across and consists of 14 tall slabs some of which have fallen. Detailed survey of site in Hart Tor Stone Rows & Cairns, Meavy Valley Archaeology. Site Report No.9 - Sandy Gerrard (1999). See also: Sea Views at Hart Tor, The Stone Rows and Cairns at Hart Tor Dartmoor Part One and The Stone Rows and Cairns at Hart Tor Dartmoor Part TwoNearby sites:SX57717171Distance: 0.8km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and CistsOS Map:SX 56522 71474NMR record:SX 57 SE 104HER record:50223Megalithic Portal:2020The Stone Rows of GB:Leeden TorPMD:Leeden Tor Stone RowShortName: SR:Leeden TorButler map: 45.15DPD page: 23Notes: "BA cairn and stone row. The scrappy remains of a single stone row now 165m long descend from a badly battered cairn on the south-east slopes of Leeden Tor. The cairn is about 6m across with a large central pit and partial retaining circle. At least 14 stones remain in a line, four only still earthfast and the rest either flat or buried. Stone pits record the loss of some of the stones". Lethbridge p23, diagram p.24. See also: Sea Views at Leeden TorNearby sites:SX56527147Distance: 0.48km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and CistsOS Map:SX 57650 71470NMR record:SX 57 SE 36HER record:3748Megalithic Portal:36404ShortName: ES:RaddickHillDPD page: 26Notes: "A Bronze Age enclosed hut circle settlement. The remains lie on a northerly hillslope and now comprise a D-shaped enclosure wall of boulders and stones containing about twelve hut circles. A small D-shaped enclosure is attached to the uphill south-east side. The northern part of the settlement has been effaced by a tinner's cliff, part of the Hart Tor Brook streamworks. This well preserved settlement now lies under low bilberry bushes."Nearby sites:SX57657147Distance: 0.67km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and CistsOS Map:SX 55250 71720NMR record:SX 57 SE 53HER record:3775Megalithic Portal:45578ShortName: ES:Routrundl SNotes: Routrundle South Pound: "A roughly oval field with diameters of 58.0 metres by 64.0 metres and a modern perimeter wall 1.5 metres high. There are no obvious footings of a previous wall but the plan and size (0.25 hectares) suggest that it is the fossilization of a prehistoric enclosure similar to that 250 metres to the north-east."Nearby sites:SX55257172Distance: 1.77km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and CistsOS Map:SX 56136 70785NMR record:SX 57 SE 46HER record:4991Megalithic Portal:2117The Stone Rows of GB:Sharpitor North EastPMD:Sharpitor E Stone RowAlternate name: Sharpitor NE Stone RowShortName: SR:Sharpitor EButler map: 45.13DPD page: 21Notes:Described by Worth as "Sharpitor, foot of eastern slope". Listed by Butler as Sharpitor N.E. (which can be confused with another alleged row). "A stone row, with a cairn at the west end at SX 56147078, extends almost due west for 26.0m. to SX 56167078. The cairn, mutilated and amorphous, is now approximately 6.7m in diameter and 0.3m. high at its maximum. There are nine stones in the row, including three pairs, with an additional stone which seems to be displaced, all between 0.1m. and 0.3m. high. The east end of the row is terminated by a reave (SX 67 SE 91) which has cut across and evidently destroyed any westward extension." Lethbridge pp.20-22.Nearby sites:SX56147079Distance: 1.03km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and CistsOS Map:SX 55665 70617NMR record:SX 57 SE 49HER record:3762Megalithic Portal:2118The Stone Rows of GB:Sharpitor North West 1PMD:Sharpitor Summit N Stone RowAlternate name: Sharpitor NW 1 Stone RowShortName: SR:Sharp NW1Butler map: 45.12.1DPD page: 21Notes: "The double stone row is in poor shape. Both terminals have survived fixing its length at 113m from the blocking stone to the centre of the cairn. The cairn (4.5 x 0.3) has lost its retaining circle and has been dug into in the centre. The other end of the row is well defined by a pair of larger slabs in the line of the rows followed by a central cross-set blocking stone 1.2m long that has been tipped backwards and is partly overgrown. The stones seemed to have increased in size nearer the cairn. Unusually the highest point on the ground is not at the cairn end but near the centre of the rows as they cross the summit of the ridge". Lethbridge pp.20-22. See also: Sea Views at Sharpitor NW 1Nearby sites:SX55677062Distance: 1.52km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and CistsOS Map:SX 55687 70600NMR record:SX 57 SE 118HER record:3761Megalithic Portal:2119The Stone Rows of GB:Sharpitor North West 2PMD:Sharpitor Summit S Stone RowAlternate name: Sharpitor NW 2 Stone RowShortName: SR:Sharp NW2Butler map: 45.12.2DPD page: 21Notes: "A BA single stone row oriented NE - SW at a very slight angle to the north-east end of the adjacent double stone row. The large scale survey dated 1980 shows a total of thirty stones whilst in 1994 it was reported that only about 10 stones can be identified with certainty and half of these are either buried or just showing. The row is partially obscured by moorland grass and the area is heavily disturbed by grazing animals and walkers tracks. The extent of the row is unclear and there is no ground evidence of an associated cairn or a blocking stone. Heavy wear and tear of the fragile peat cover has caused many natural moorland stones to be exposed on the line of the row". Lethbridge pp.20-22. See also: Sea Views at Sharpitor NW 2Nearby sites:SX55697060Distance: 1.51km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Walk: Sharpitor area Stone Rows and CistsOS Map:SX 56910 70280NMR record:SX 57 SE 117HER record:48905Megalithic Portal:45649ShortName: PC:Stan LakeTurner: E29Notes: Turner E29 "much disturbed". Alleged cairn circle. NMR record states "At SX 56897029, a felled conifer currently obscures much of what appears to be a hut circle rather than a cairn, situated on a south-east slope near a valley bottom. (Identification as a cairn may have originated with H. Breton)."Nearby sites:SX56917028Distance: 1.09km

Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks:Dartmoor Site: Walkhampton and Yes Tor Bottom SettlementsOS Map:SX 56740 72860NMR record:SX 57 SE 41HER record:4964Megalithic Portal:45325ShortName: ES:WalkhamptonNotes: "Hut circles 550m s of foggintor quarries. A very fine settlement, set within a well built and substantial enclosure wall, enclosing an area of some 1.0ha. Five hut circles occur within the enclosure varying between 6-10m in diam ... Outside the enclosure to the w are five further huts of similar dimensions - again one of these shows sign of alteration. Under moorland grass." The site was excavated in 1897 by Burnard and Baring-Gould.Nearby sites:SX56747286Distance: 1.51km